Somatic Therapy

Somatic Therapy

When life isn’t going well, trying harder doesn’t always work.  Sometimes the problem lies deep beneath our conscious control.  Old patterns that tell us what’s happening…and how to be…what to do…these need to change.  If talking about it worked, we’d have broken through it long ago.  We need to go deeper.

This problem … I call it “survival circuitry” … it can show up in many different ways: physical symptoms, pain, anxiety, sleep issues, emotional moods, illnesses, nervous habits, auto-immune issues, grief, relationship problems.  Treating what shows up with medicine just pushes the problem deeper.

That is where Somatic Therapy begins.  Somatic therapy works with the unconscious patterns of meaning stored in body memory.   The habits that once helped us survive are now holding us back, making us suffer.  Somatic therapy uses dialogue, but it also works with the body, with images, attitude, posture and with the will.  It gets to the body memory, makes it conscious, and frees us to make new choices.

The result is more power, pleasure and purpose.

What a session looks like